For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

  • spaceghoti@lemmy.one
    11·
    2 years ago

    I am a reddit user from the Great Digg Exodus of 2008. Fifteen years of content and over a million karma that I’m going to overwrite at the end of the month. I’m going to bring as many people with me as I can before I go. I hope all three of them enjoy lemmy.

    Yeah, this feels a lot like a bad breakup. I’ve explored reddit alternatives before, but this time it’s for good.

    • datavoid@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 years ago

      I’ve been on Reddit for 11 years. I have looked for alternatives in the past - I tried voat for about 10 minutes before realizing how terrible its userbase was.

      Reddit’s quality started noticably dropping in like 2018 for me, mostly due to the massive number of repost bots. I’ve really enjoyed being forced to find new forum style sites… assuming you’re a tech nerd, there are a ton of good options out there. And Lemmy/kbin (plus whatever else people make) have huge potential in my opinion.

      I’ll probably still occasionally use old.reddit until they kill that and/or RES. But I don’t think I’m really a redditor anymore

    • ShutYourPieHole@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’m also a Digg Exodus user that came to Reditt in 2008. I have very few posts and little karma as it was more of an aggregator of content for me and less about the interaction. And at the same time reading the comments was some of the best part of the experience.

      The move from Digg to Reddit took a bit but who remembers Digg now? And Digg crumbled for the same reasons, management not listening to the users. This sucks but it too will pass.